Phew! 21st December came and went without the solar flares baking us all to crispy crunchy human bacons, without a hitherto-unknown planet called Nibiru (sounds straight out of Star Wars, doesn't it?) crashing into Mother Earth, without the ground opening up under our very feet (I wonder if people in India would have noticed that - when our roads are already filled with giant potholes!)
or tall tsunamis sweeping blowing everything in their path to smithreens. I guess the Mayans were a bit weak in their Math, what say?
I am glad though that, at least in India, there were no people standing at the traffic junctions with huge boards that said 'Repent, for the end is near'. That there was no stampede at the supermarkets for bread, vegetables and packets of Maggie noodles! That team members turned up at work and made plans for work to be completed next week.
I hope the Mayans won't be offended. This in no way casts any aspersion on them. It's just that we have been through too many 'end-of-the-world' like scenarios to take such predictions seriously. Or maybe it's a simple case of accepting whatever it is that you simply cannot control.
Oh well, I just hope that we won't have a white Christmas - in Mumbai. :-)
I am glad though that, at least in India, there were no people standing at the traffic junctions with huge boards that said 'Repent, for the end is near'. That there was no stampede at the supermarkets for bread, vegetables and packets of Maggie noodles! That team members turned up at work and made plans for work to be completed next week.
I hope the Mayans won't be offended. This in no way casts any aspersion on them. It's just that we have been through too many 'end-of-the-world' like scenarios to take such predictions seriously. Or maybe it's a simple case of accepting whatever it is that you simply cannot control.
Oh well, I just hope that we won't have a white Christmas - in Mumbai. :-)
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